October 12, 2016

September 10, 2016

Game consoles

Today's search
term is "handheld_game_console. I've never owned one, you know that?
I've never even tried to play a game on one. The first few I looked at had, by
my standards, dreadful displays; grainy and not backlit. I suspect my impression
is many years out of date, though. If they can put a 1920*1080 backlit display
in my phone, then surely the displays in the consoles now must be better than I
remember.

But I doubt I'll change; I was never a big one for twitch games, and anyway
if I wanted to play games like that I'd get them for my FireHD.

1
I have a 3DS; I got it to play the older Final Fantasy games, which I'd missed when they first came out. But they're all available either on phone or PC now; I have 1 through 6 on Android and 7 through 13 on PC.

But now that they're readily available I have no time to actually play them...

2
We've had a couple over time in my household. Currently we have a PSP, though amusingly, the big reason we got it was because it had a component cable, so you could hook it to a TV. The desirability wasn't for portability, it was for the games available on the platform.

These days, more and more games do get brought to phone/tablet, though this comes with some provisos. Most of the RPG ports I've seen are pretty terrible, for example, since they were designed with a control pad type interface, which doesn't map to touch screen.

Posted by: metaphysician at September 12, 2016 12:29 PM (wPtAD)

3
I had a Sega GameGear back in the early '90s. I kept it for about two months, then sold it. That's the last time I've had any sort of gaming system that wasn't a PC.

4
I don't blame you for ditching the Game Gear. It was an interesting piece of hardware, that was trying to be ambitious without any concept of how to actually do it. Or, "Color graphics sure look good on ad copy, but you know what is more important? Battery life."

Sega did that a lot. Its why they aren't in the console business anymore.

August 09, 2016

Fetishes

I've been spending quite a lot of time looking at pictures on Gelbooru, as
you know, and I'm continually amazed, and often outright revolted, at some of
the fetishes the artists have. But I guess no one can really understand any
fetish they don't themselves have.

Me? I don't have any fetishes!

What do you mean "Panty shots are a fetish". Like hell!
Liking panty shots is normal, dammit! If you don't like panty shots then YOU are
the strange one!

That's not a fetish, that's ART! Look at all the skill that went into drawing
it! Check out the nice picture composition! How can that be a fetish? grumble
fume of all the stupid...

Oh, ahem. Cough. Where was I?

The ones that really bother me I won't describe specifically, but I can't
understand why, for instance, anyone would want to look at a grisly picture of a
pretty girl being brutally murdered, with lots of blood and her face writhed in
agony. You can find hundreds of pictures like that, and a lot that are far more nauseating.

I can't understand anyone wanting to look at such a thing, and I reallycan't understand why someone would spend hours or even days drawing such
a thing. Ignoring the subject matter, many of them show very high craft skill
and they can't be quick to draw!

4
If you're talking about 09972, that's Mina and Kouko from Haifuri. Haifuri doesn't have any yuri in it, but that doesn't stop fan artists, and anyway Mina and Kouko do become friends, mostly because they're both fans of grade B Japanese gangster flicks.

July 08, 2016

Cheesecake: Less is more!

Cheesecake should be risqué, revealing, lots of skin and not much else. A
cheesecake picture of a model who is fully dressed isn't cheesecake, so I
apologize for my previous
post. To make it up to you, today's search term is "micro
bikini".

I presume you all realize that everything below the fold is NSFW, so I won't
bother mentioning that everything below the fold is NSFW.